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...Today-full-color-weather-map news judgment in its incubating stages? I wasn't eager to find out. Not wanting to quash his enthusiasm, however, I jotted this down as the first question...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Going After the News | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...producers of Wired finally find a distributor -- no thanks to Hollywood, they say, which feared the film's seamy revelations and closed ranks in an effort to quash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 17 APRIL 24, 1989 | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...boom-and-bust cycle that continues to this day. Says Celia Hunter, a lodge keeper who came to the territory 42 years ago: "Alaskans have always looked for the big bang that would solve all their problems." Some development schemes were downright absurd. In the late 1950s, Hunter helped quash a proposal to use atom bombs to blast an artificial harbor out of the northern coast. "The argument even then was jobs, jobs, jobs," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Two Alaskas | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...there now so much activism on Harvard's campus that we should begin to quash new initiatives? Good democracy is based on pluralism. Pluralism means that all those with a common interest should band together and work to achieve their goals...

Author: By Kevin D. Katari, | Title: Free Association | 4/13/1989 | See Source »

...Wiener writes in The Nation article that evidence about Parsons' post-war recruiting activities may quash the renaissance in Parsonian scholarship...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Do Scholars Lives Affect Their Scholarship? | 2/25/1989 | See Source »

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